Bound Together: How Traders, Preachers, Adventurers, and Warriors Shaped GlobalizationYale University Press, 01/10/2008 - 416 من الصفحات A wide-ranging and original history of globalization, examining how it has developed and what it means for the futureSince humans migrated from Africa and dispersed throughout the world, they have found countless ways and reasons to reconnect with each other. In this entertaining book, Nayan Chanda follows the exploits of traders, preachers, adventurers, and warriors throughout history as they have shaped and reshaped the world. For Chanda, globalization is a process of ever-growing interconnectedness and interdependence that began thousands of years ago and continues to this day with increasing speed and ease. In the end, globalization—from the lone adventurer carving out a new trade route to the expanding ambitions of great empires—is the product of myriad aspirations and apprehensions that define just about every aspect of our lives: what we eat, wear, ride, or possess is the product of thousands of years of human endeavor and suffering across the globe. Chanda reviews and illustrates the economic and technological forces at play in globalization today and concludes with a thought-provoking discussion of how we can and should embrace an inevitably global world. |
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... Empire—promoted legal and linguis- tic unity and the exchange of plant and animal species across the globe. Chapter7, “Slaves, Germs, and Trojan Horses,” explores the dark underbelly of expanding global connections. As more and more ...
... Empire—promoted legal and linguis- tic unity and the exchange of plant and animal species across the globe. Chapter7, “Slaves, Germs, and Trojan Horses,” explores the dark underbelly of expanding global connections. As more and more ...
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... empire. There were also intrepid villagers, curious about what lay behind the mountain at the edge of their vil- lage or at the other side of the blue waters. They set forth to see what they could see, and they returned with stories ...
... empire. There were also intrepid villagers, curious about what lay behind the mountain at the edge of their vil- lage or at the other side of the blue waters. They set forth to see what they could see, and they returned with stories ...
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... Empire building soon followed. Essen- tially, the basic motivations that propelled humans to connect with others— the urge to profit by trading, the drive to spread religious belief, the desire to ex- plore new lands, and the ambition ...
... Empire building soon followed. Essen- tially, the basic motivations that propelled humans to connect with others— the urge to profit by trading, the drive to spread religious belief, the desire to ex- plore new lands, and the ambition ...
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... empire of Akkad (2340–230 bc). Sargon's conquests spanned the Mediter- ranean to the Persian Gulf—covering virtually all of the settled communities in the Levant except Egypt—making Akkad the world's first empire that sought to forge ...
... empire of Akkad (2340–230 bc). Sargon's conquests spanned the Mediter- ranean to the Persian Gulf—covering virtually all of the settled communities in the Levant except Egypt—making Akkad the world's first empire that sought to forge ...
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... empire . Indeed , as the historian Jean - Jacques Glassner writes , Akkadian impe- rialism exhibited new attitudes toward war , where warfare outside the zone of direct political control became an instituted economic activity driven by ...
... empire . Indeed , as the historian Jean - Jacques Glassner writes , Akkadian impe- rialism exhibited new attitudes toward war , where warfare outside the zone of direct political control became an instituted economic activity driven by ...
المحتوى
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4 Preachers World | 105 |
5 World in Motion | 145 |
6 The Imperial Weave | 175 |
7 Slaves Germs and Trojan Horses | 209 |
From Buzzword to Curse | 245 |
9 Whos Afraid of Globalization? | 271 |
10 The Road Ahead | 305 |
Chronology | 321 |
Acknowledgments | 331 |
Notes | 335 |
Index | 373 |
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